Crossword-Solution: OCTOSYLLABIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Octosyllabic | a. | Alt. of Octosyllabical |
We have 2 clues for the answer “OCTOSYLLABIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| VERSE of eight syllables (pert. to) | 1 answer |
| WORD of eight syllables (pert. to) | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
To boil with a continued bubbling or heaving and
rolling, with noise.
Hint 2 anagram
LLAPWO
Hint 3 another clue
BATTER ___
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Sentences with OCTOSYLLABIC (5)
Really, I have begun to learn some of the rudiments of that trade, and have written three or four pretty enough pieces of octosyllabic nonsense, semi-serious, semi-smiling.
Coventry Patmore used the octosyllabic stanza perfectly, inasmuch as he never left it either heavily or thinly packed.
With the second, consisting of 7699 octosyllabic verses, like those in which “The House of Fame” is written, it was found impossible to deal in the present edition.
The octosyllabic measure in which it is written — the same which the author of “Hudibras” used with such admirable effect — is excellently adapted for the vivid descriptions, the lively sallies of humour and sarcasm, with which the poem abounds; and when the poet actually does get to his subject, he treats it with a zest, and a corresponding interest on the part of the reader, which are scarcely surpassed by the best of The Canterbury Tales.
The metre of the poem proper is iambic, that is, with the accent on the even syllables, and octosyllabic, or eight syllables to the line.